Belfast Cancer Centre
Project Introduction
Scott Wilson was commissioned as an integrated design team incorporating our Architects, Civil & Structural Engineers, Landscape Architects, Town Planners and Planning Supervisors for the design of a new £60m Cancer Centre at Belfast City Hospital.
Project Background
This project aimed to deliver clinical excellence in the care of cancer patients, providing “one stop shop” access to treatment, support facilities and follow-up care using the latest equipment in the field of diagnostic imagery, radiotherapy and nuclear medicine.
Project Scope
The new Cancer Centre has been designed to create a non-institutional, human scale environment with maximum use of natural daylight, providing a therapeutic and harmonious atmosphere to benefit and improve the patient’s progress and well being. The building consists of a reinforced concrete frame on piled foundations with an external aluminum, glazed and terracotta rain-screen cladding system.
Linked to the existing City Hospital by underground and elevated walkways, the 84-bed centre includes 10 linear accelerator vaults for radiotherapy and all imaging modalities currently being employed in cancer diagnosis. The interior design inspiration has been taken from landmark images from across Northern Ireland and complements the high standard of materials specified.
Value Adding Project Achievements
To enhance staff and patient experience of the centre, the building has been complemented by an extensive landscaping scheme both around the peripheral envelope and within the several levels of internal courtyard. This involved soft and hard landscaping and the planting of trees and hedges. A new two-storey split level car park, for some 300 cars, replaces the former surface car park and provides convenient parking adjacent to the entrance of both the City Hospital and Cancer Centre. The scheme was shortlisted in the 2006 IStructE Awards.
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